สงคราม IO ไทย-เขมร สู่อาณานิคมดิจิทัล ร้ายแรงกว่า Fake News เขมร?
Summary
The July conflict with Cambodia showed that modern war is not confined to the battlefield: it extends into the digital space through fake news and information operations.
The deeper problem than fake news is that the platforms used daily — Facebook, X, YouTube, TikTok — are all in foreign hands.
Every post and every video sends data to servers abroad, held under another country’s law.
Vietnam, Indonesia and Singapore have begun building their own digital sovereignty so as not to become anyone’s digital colony.
The open question is how Thailand defends itself against this class of threat.
Key points
The war ran on two fronts at once
The border and the information space were used together.
Fake news is the symptom, not the disease
The disease is that the entire communication channel sits outside our jurisdiction.
Data lives under someone else’s law
With servers abroad, Thai legal enforcement has hard limits.
The neighbours have already acted
Vietnam, Indonesia and Singapore each have digital sovereignty measures.
"Digital colony" is more literal than it sounds
Total dependence on someone else’s infrastructure is an unequal relationship.